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Event

The Cundill Lecture: Red Memory

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 17:30to20:00
Faculty Club 3450 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0E5, CA

Tania Branigan, Foreign Leader Writer at聽The Guardian, will deliver the 2024 Cundill Lecture on her award winning book,聽Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution. Branigan was awarded the 2023 Cundill History Prize for her 鈥渉aunting鈥 excavation of the Cultural Revolution. Uncovering forty years of silence, following countless hours of interviews, Branigan鈥檚聽Red Memory聽gives voices to those who lived through Mao鈥檚 decade of madness. Written while Branigan was reporting in China, this masterful book examines the scar running through Chinese society and the souls of its citizens, revealing a 鈥渕ajor trauma鈥 which looms over the nation.

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